I had the opportunity to catch 3 of the shorts playing in the Shorts Program at Hot Docs titled Heal & Release. Here is my quick review of them. Orgy Every Other Day This short doc takes a look at the phenomenon of sex parties, particularly Queer ones, as a place...
Life After is focused on advocating for awareness of disabled people’s and their lack of funding, especially here in Ontario and in Canada as a whole in light of C-7 which would allow people with disabilities to end their lives. The film makes it clear that the main...
An intimate epic of sorts, Yalla Parkour covers seven years of footage and time and is told from the perspective of the director who one day gets connected with Ahmed, a young aspiring parkour. He gives her a lens into life in Gaza that she never had because of the...
Based on the best selling novel, The Friend follows Iris (Naomi Watts), a woman who is looking back on her complex friendship with a fellow writer and mentor Walter (Bill Murray). Walter, while charming, brilliant, charismatic and a player, often lets those who are...
In 1976, Tom Michel, a British bloke looking for a teaching jobs, winds up in Argentina at a prestigious private school. However, even a private school life is not separate from the chaos of the rising military dictatorship that threatens to control the country. As...
Dope Thief follows Ray (Brian Tyree Henry), a man who is struggling to make more out of the little that he has. He tells his step-mother (who is more like his real mom) that he paints houses but really he is battling the drug war in an illegal--but more ethical--way....
Mickey 17, Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho's follow up to the Best Picture winning, Parasite, was always going to come with high expectations and this one came with a high budget as well. The hook is probably the simplest of his films to get on board with. Mickey Barnes...
From the editor of Notting Hill and Love, Actually--the only film my girlfriend's mom has seen more than once-- comes a film that aims for that same comfort. Set in modern day London, we follow Minnie Driver (Like the car), a woman who is convinced that she is cursed...
(Warning: This review contains spoilers for those who have not seen the series that this movie continues). Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX - Beginning follows an ambitious young commander who is active in the fight between his own colony far from earth and the main...